Re: arch/tile

[Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>]

On 5/26/2010 10:05 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> We have an outstanding enhancement request in our bug tracking system to
>> switch to using the Linux generic IRQs directly, and plan to implement
>> it prior to our next major release.  But we haven't done it yet, and
>> this code, though somewhat crufty, is reasonably stable.  I'm also not
>> the primary maintainer of this particular piece of code, so I'd rather
>> wait until that person frees up and have him do it, instead of trying to
>> hack it myself.
>>     
>   It should be rather straight forward and can be efficiently done
>   with the handle_simple_irq() handler AFAICS. So I'd prefer to see
>   that fixed befor the code gets merged.
>   

OK, we have made changes to integrate to the Linux PERCPU IRQ mechanism,
which most closely matches what our interrupt layer did.  You should see
it a bit later when I post the revised diffs.

Thanks!

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Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
http://www.tilera.com